September 2011 Blog Posts (12)

I've been wondering this for a while. Is it because the few Steampunkish films released have done really poorly, like the Wild Wild West, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, or because Hollywood just hasn't caught on to how cool a well articulated Steampunk film could be?

Bloodrunsclear created this fake Weird West movie trailer by chopping up other films.…

Why is a blank page so frighting? Is it the fact that the entire universe is held with in that empty space and I'm fearful of not doing it justice or am I finding excuses? So I sit here with a million thoughts and a whole stack of blank pages and nothing seems right. Why is that?

Hey all! I made a decision a few weeks back that I would blog about Steampunk awesomeness on Tuesdays over at my blog. What makes this decision extra interesting is I had no idea the hashtag created by Nancy Overbury #SteamTuesdays already existed. Evidently Tuesday is the Steampunkiest day of the week.

In any event, I neglected to share this new plan here, and so, now I will.

I've published my short story "Air for Fire" as a Kindle title here. It's about 4,500 words, and is a steampunk take on the life and death of Hypatia, an historical figure with whom every steampunker should be well familiar... I've posted an excerpt on my blog…

Have you ever started writing a novel or short story but lost impetus after the opening act, unsure what should happen next, but sensing that the arc you pre-planned doesn’t work for some mysterious reason? Then maybe you need to take another look at what your protagonist does after the incident that gets the story started.

Apart from moving to our new lakeshore house which i hardly can't await, there hopefully will be time for writing, constructing, sharing information with you about what and who is going on in the City of Ore.

In the upcoming posts, I will focus on a few important characters, their stories behind as well as the role they play.

You certainly will be confused, especially when I take things for granted, which you cannot put into…

As I mentioned, I started working on my first steampunk novel a few weeks ago, even my first novel ever (hmm, bad style boy, using the same phrase as above ...; HA! Who cares? I am no English native speaker. Can do better in German.)

Back to the point.

During the last year I had to travel twoandahalfhours (I know, I could use plain numbers to express that ...) by…